20th/21st Century

Creative Writing

Education

• MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction), University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• MA in English, Virginia Commonwealth University
• BA in English, Florida State University

Research Interests

• Creative writing (fiction)
• short story cycles
• 20th-century U.S. literature

Select Publications

Book

• The Stillness of the Picture: Stories. Tucson, Arizona: Kore Press, 2016.

Stories

• “Goatman.” Salamander 51 (2020–2021): 153–154.
• “Chessie: The Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster.” storySouth 50 (2020).

Articles

• “William Maxwell.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed.Jackson Bryer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. [Updated Spring 2022]
• “An ‘Unlikely’ Intersectionalist: Black Feminist Ethics in William Maxwell’s Time Will Darken It.” MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature XL (2013): 124–139.